- Patch by Steven: removed redundant permission checks.  These are no longer
  required thanks to the new 404 handling.

- Introduced a drupal_set_message() and drupal_get_message() function.

  Contributed themes and modules need to be updated:
   - modules: status() is no more; use drupal_set_message() instead.
   - themes: use drupal_get_message() to check for status messages and
     visualize them.

- Committed phase 4 of JonBob's menu system changes.

- Patch by JonBob:

  Phase 2 of the menu system integration project. This unifies the interface
  used by admin and non-admin pages, and deprecates the _page hook in favor of
  explicit callbacks from menu(). Breadcrumbs, titles, and help text go away
  as a result of this patch; they will return in the phase 3 patch, printed
  by the theme.

- Admin module clean-up.  Patch by Kjartan.  (The status function should be
  a theme_ function really.)

- Committed stage 1 of the menu callbacks improvements.  Patch by Jonathan.

- Bugfix: fixed bug #3807.

- Properly initialized $contents and removed dead code.  Patch/suggestion by ax.

- Small usability improvement: add title to administration pages.  Patch by Ax.

- Bugfix: corrected the context sensitive help of the main admin page.  Fixes bug
  #3756.

- Fixed translation bugs with statistics module.  Patch by Gabor.

- Removed 'homepage' field from user table.  Patch by Gabor.

- Added 'real name' field to the profile module.  Patch by Gabor.

- Committed part 3 of Michael's help system improvements: removed the $help
  parameter from the menu() function.

- Help system improvements: eliminated the _system hook.  Patch by Michael.

- Bloggerapi module fixes.  Patch by Kjartan.

- Coding style fixes.  Patch by Michael.

- Help improvements and translation improvements from Michael.  Thanks!

- Fixed the admin preview problem as per Jonathan's suggestion.  We'll want to
  think of a better solution though so I'll move that theme("header") statement
  back to its original place in a few weeks time.

- Renamed some menu items for clarity and ... added basic phpDoc comments.

  "create content" link.

- Manually merged the user module's new menu items.  Al's patch did not
  apply.

- Added some missing t()s.

   + Fixed CSS to use the same format as the rest of drupal.css.
   + Added fallback routine for menu icons.
   + Fixed anonymous users not seeing the menu.
   + Added proper access checks for admin and help menu items.

- Committed the admin menu integration patch.  Thanks Adrian, Stefan and others.

- Help system improvements from Michael.

- Translation improvement: made it easier to translate the site title of the
  administration pages.  Patch #66 by Stefan.

- Improvement: don't perform XSS checks for trusted users.  Trusted users
  are those that have the "bypass input data check" permission set.  Should
  address bug #2147.

- Improvement: simplified index.php and modules/admin.module.

- Bugfix: fixed broken links in bloggerapi documentation.  Patch by Chris
  Johnson.  Fixes bug #2030.

- Bugfix: fixed the date shown on a book module preview.  Reported as part
  of bug #2097.

- Bugfix: fixed broken URL in the book module documentation.

- Improvement: show favicon on admin pages.  Patch #20 by Al.

- Improvements: XHTML-ifications.  Patch by GmbH.

- Bugfix: added trailing slash to URL.  Patch #39 by Al.  Fixes bug #1848.

- Bugfix: renamed the SQL field 'types' to 'nodes' because 'types' is a reserved keyword in MySQL 4.  This fixes critical bug #1618.  Patch by Marco.

  ==> This fix requires to run update.php!

- Bugfix: made sessions work without warnings when register_globals is turned off. The solution is to use $_SESSION instead of session_register().  This fixes critical bug #1797.  Patch by Marco.

- Bugfix: sometimes error messages where being discarded when previewing a node.  Patch by Craig Courtney.

- Bugfix: fixed charset problems.  This fixes critical bug #1549.  Patch '0023.charset.patch' by Al.

- Code improvements: removed some dead code from the comment module.  Patch by Marco.

- Documentation improvements: polished the node module help texts and form descriptions.  Patch '0019.node.module.help.patch' by Al.

- CSS improvements all over the map!  Patch '0021.more.css.patch' by Al.

- GUI improvements: improved the position of Druplicon in the admin menu.  Patch '0020.admin.logo.patch' by Al.

- GUI improvements: new logos for theme Marvin and theme UnConeD.  Logos by Kristjan Jansen.

- GUI improvements: small changes to the output emitted by the profile module.  Suggestions by Steven Wittens.

- GUI improvements: small fixes to Xtemplate.  Patch '0022.xtemplate.css.patch' by Al.

TODO:

- Some modules such as the buddy list module and the annotation module in the contributions repository are also using session_register().  They should be updated.  We should setup a task on Drupal.

- There is code emitting '<div align="right">' which doesn't validate.

- Does our XML feeds validate with the charset changes?

- The forum module's SQL doesn't work properly on PostgreSQL.

to avoid XSS attacks!  Patch by Al, Moshe, Marco, Kjartan and me.

- Bugfix: the admin module does now import drupal.css prior to admin.css.
Patch by me.

- Bugfix: the admin module was still emitting a <base href=""> tag.  I
removed this as it is been taken care of by theme_head();  Patch by me.

- Bugfix: made the tracker module's pager only consider published pages.
Patch by Moshe.

- Bugfix: cured some typos in the comment module's help function.  Patch by
Marco.

- Bugfix: fixed a typo in the pager_display() that caused optional
attributes to be discarded.

- Bugfix: made the Xtemplate emit empty boxes like any other theme does.
Patch by Al.

- Bugfix: fixed broken link on the statistics module's log page.
Reported by Kjartan.

- CSS improvements: made the HTML output emitted by the tracker module
look nicer.  Patch by Moshe and Al.

- CSS improvements: added CSS classes for form elements.  Patch by Al.

- CSS improvements: added a vertical gap between the last form item and the
submit button.  Patch by Al.  Note that Opera 6 is not picking up this
CSS but apparently others browsers such as Konqueror do.

- Xtemplate improvements: changed the color of the selected day in the
archive module's calendar.  Patch by Al.

- Usability improvements: made the "birthday" field of the profile module
look nicer.  Patch by Al.

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- TODO: it might be a good idea to emit the following meta tag in the
theme_head() function:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

Currently, some themes (and modules!) emit this while others don't.  This
would also make it possible to change the charset site-wide.

- TODO: now we added support for td.dark and td.light to drupal.css, maybe
it can be removed from admin.css as well as xtemplate.css?

- "Administration overview" -> "sitemap"

- Michael Frankowski's excellent help text improvements!

- The page_footer() function was always called twice due to the introduction
  of the "footer" hook (and because of the existence of the page module).
  This caused the node view counter to be incremented twice per page view,
  the cache being set twice, etc.  Quite a bug.

- Specified the charset such that the administration pages would validate.
  Is this an OK thing to do?

- Fixed a typo in the PostgreSQL database scheme.  Patch by Michael Frankowski.

- Fixed a typo in the MSSQL database scheme.  Patch by Michael Frankowski.

- Removed dependency on "register_globals = on"!  Patches by Michael Frankowski.

  Notes:

  + Updated the patches to use $foo["bar"] instead of $foo['bar'].
  + Updated the INSTALL and CHANGELOG files as well.

- Tiny improvement to the "./scripts/code-clean.sh" script.

- Committed Gordon's htmlarea patch.

- Changed the import and taxonomy module to use better URLs.  Patches by
  Al.

- Fixed locale module weirdness.  Patch by Kjartan.

- Eliminated system_init(), the session stuff, and made it possible to
  rebuild the menu.

- Emit the menu after the actual content; this makes it possible to rebuild
  the menu when some action changed the system table.

- New menu houskeeping.  Prototyped by Zbynek.

  The following modules need updating:
    * glossary module
    * feed module (Breyten's version)
    * mailhandler module
    * notify module
    * project module
    * smileys module
    * admin module
    * style module
    * taxonomy_dhtml module

  To avoid unexpected problems menu_add() is deprecated (it will print an
  error message when used) and menu() should be used instead.

- Clean URLs.

- Added sitemap feature to administration pages.  Requested by various
  people including Michael and Moshe.